By THOMAS MARQUET #23: Jacqueline fends off the advances of Steven Conrad, and spends a day in the studio. “The White Cube” comics can be read in series in the Big RED & Shiny Collections section. Thomas Marquet is a…
By MATTHEW NASH It’s hard to be optimistic about the apocalypse, yet much of the work in the group exhibition “After The End Of The World” feels, well… almost optimistic. The four artists in this exhibition each create worlds that…
By JON PETRO “‘America’s Paradise’ and ‘Isla Del Encanto:’ Contemporary Art from the American Caribbean,” is a thematic group exhibition, containing over 20 varying types of artworks, from 12 emerging and established American Caribbean artists addressing the issue of the…
By MARTINA TANGA Stencil: a thin sheet of stiff material – like paper or metal – is perforated with a design through which ink or paint is forced onto an underlying sheet of paper. It is a simple but effective…
By BEN SLOAT At the Bernard Toale Gallery in the South End is a fascinating exhibition of photographic images, Ambiguous Ambassador, by the deceased photographer Tseng Kowng Chi. Each image is a staged self portrait, a square format black and…
By MATTHEW NASH On the corner of Westland and Mass. Ave, across from the Christian Science Church, Andi Sutton stands on a milk crate in front of a small crowd. She is describing her project, “Crosspollination,” and its relationship to…
It was confirmed this morning that Esther Anderson, longtime supporter of the arts in Boston, died this past week. She was 92. In a message sent yesterday, Dean Deborah Dluhy of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts summarized…
By BIG RED Friday September 7th 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at First Friday openings in SOWA and the Big Red & Shiny book release party at Axiom. Photos by James Manning. Video by Heidi Marston…
By BIG RED Friday September 7th 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the First Friday openings on Newbury Street and SOWA. Paul Beliveau ‘Les Humanities’ at Arden Gallery From Minimal to Bling: Contemporary Studio Jewelry at…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND In the past couple weeks we’ve been buckling down for the new school year: putting the final touches on our lesson plans, picking up our tweed blazers from the cleaners, or, in my case, actually going back…
By STEVE AISHMAN Editor’s Note: This installment of Steve Aishman’s “Report From The Phantom Zone” may have been written in collaboration with his wife and long-time Big RED contributor, Heidi Marston Aishman. “It’s amazing how much you can get done…
By THOMAS MARQUET #22: Danny is called on the carpet to explain why a bad review is a good review. “The White Cube” comics can be read in series in the Big RED & Shiny Collections section. Thomas Marquet…
By CARL GUNHOUSE Trashing the Museum of Modern Art has become a sport for art critics since it reopened in 2004. Jerry Saltz complained that MoMA focused too heavily on the greats of art history, presenting a predictable and homogenized…
By JOHN RUGGIERI In the museum retrospective of Rudolf Stingel, the quiet drama in his work is heightened by scale and context. The art world has been wrestling with the idea that “Painting is dead” for quite some time. Some…
By MATTHEW NASH A few years ago, I gave my father a book of Dilbert cartoons. He gave it back. To me, Dilbert is an hilarious sendup of corporate culture, showing the ridiculousness of cubicle life and how impersonal it…
Earlier this week, Paul Lam of Locco Ritoro Gallery surprised many people by announcing that he would be closing the gallery. In its two years in the Harrison Street SoWa complex, Locco Ritoro has shown a wide variety of exciting…
By BIG RED Liz Nofziger has returned from Documenta with images of some of the great work she experienced. Documenta
By BIG RED Friday, August 10th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Axiom for the opening of “Collision:Technomorph” featuring new work from the Collision Collective. Axiom Photos by Autumn Ahn.
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR By needing what the other has, a joint move by two well known Berkshire institutions by Clark Institute of Art and Mass MoCA – secures space for the former and money for the latter: From…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR As we reported in issue #65, a new gallery named Proof has taken over the space in the Distillery that formerly housed Second Gallery. Co-directed by Julia Hechtman and Kara Braciale, Proof’s mission statement promises…